While I am still not a fan of comic sans (I’m a serif kind of girl), this video does make me respect the typeface more: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole from joehollier on Vimeo.
Over the Christmas holidays I purchased a Gutenberg Letterpress poster from Monkey-Rope Press on Etsy. I have been looking for decoration for my little studio and I thought this poster was the perfect piece to hang above my newly restored Kelsey letterpress. I was right! I matted and framed my poster and hung it above my press. Here’s a picture
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My latest project is the first of my Grotesque Series. Eventually I will carve a collection of enlarged, woodcut versions of medieval marginal grotesques. The word “grotesque” in medieval manuscripts refers to the strange, fantastic, and/or distorted figures that populated the margins of the manuscript pages. I actually just finished carving this block, but here is a photo of it half
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My ‘Nouveau Peacock’ print was included in a lovely peacock-themed treasury today! Thanks to Erin from SouthernTwistedSoaps!
McClain’s 2012 catalog has finally come out. And one of my prints was included! My Heian Shrine print appears on page 21 of the printed version (and page 23 of the online edition). I am not sure what is going on with the pagination, but it is very exciting to be included nevertheless! You can check out the rest of the
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Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Today is my lucky day! My “Zodiac” print has been featured in TWO Etsy treasuries. Check them out, and show them some Etsy love: And number two:
Happy Chinese New Year! It is the Year of the Dragon! You can pick up your very own “Zodiac” print in my Etsy Shop to commemorate the holiday!
Some of you out there in the internet ether may have noticed Google, Wikipedia, Etsy, Yahoo, any many other big sites speaking out against SOPA & PIPA legislation today. It is a scary thing when one uninformed person can shut down an entire website with no recourse for appeal. This is what the new legislation is proposing. Anyway, I won’t rant, you can
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I came across an artist today that I just had to share with the world. Riusuke Fukahori creates 3-dimensional sculptural paintings by layering paint and resin. It is so unbelievably realistic that you just have to see it to believe it! http://youtu.be/21bFpgEfDFM
I don’t often get political, nor do I write about it. But I have found an intersection of letterpress and politics that seems worth mentioning in today’s disastrous economic climate. Recently ‘Obama for America’ held an art contest to find a poster to promote the American Jobs Act. For those who don’t know, the American Jobs Act is a bill that
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